26:1 | Then Job replied: |
26:2 | "How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble! |
26:3 | What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed! |
26:4 | Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth? |
26:5 | "The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them. |
26:6 | Death is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered. |
26:7 | He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing. |
26:8 | He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight. |
26:9 | He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it. |
26:10 | He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness. |
26:11 | The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke. |
26:12 | By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces. |
26:13 | By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent. |
26:14 | And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?" |
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